What is on the history curriculum for schools at present?
In the school where I work (a large inner-London comprehensive where there is a vary vary large number of immigrant children and the children of immigrants) the children are taught British history, they are taught about Roman Britain, Medieval Britain (at the moment they are learning about the Plague and the Black Death in Year 8 (second form), they learn about the Tudors and Stuarts and the English Civil War, I accompanied a group of Year 12 Citizenship students to the Houses of Parliament and they had clearly learnt about the Magna Carta as when they saw it in the flesh as it were all knew exactly what it was, how important it was etc but all chorused their shock at how small and seemingly uncared for it is (if you don’t know it is in a rather non-descript frame hidden behind a display about it just inside a doorway in the Royal Apartments) they learn about the two world wars and yes they do learn about world history as well, they learn about the black people’s of America, the French
